Ndtyjky

Sorry if it is sort of duplicate question with this one, I have tried the solutions provided and on some other posts too but none of them are working for me.

I have drawn the EditText but it is not clickable (no keyboard appeared after touch)

public class GamePanel extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback{

private LinearLayout lL;

private EditText editText;

@Override

public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder){

    lL = new LinearLayout(getContext());



    editText = new EditText(getContext());



    editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

    editText.setClickable(true);

    editText.requestFocus();



    editText.setText("Hello World");

    editText.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

    lL.addView(editText);

    lL.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);

    lL.measure(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());

    lL.layout(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());

    lL.bringChildToFront(editTextView);

}



@Override

public void draw(Canvas canvas){



    canvas.drawBitmap(lL.getDrawingCache(),50,50,null);

}

}

I have also tried this from the solution I saw: (using xml to create the EditText)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="match_parent">



<EditText

    android:id="@+id/editText1"

    android:layout_width="wrap_content"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</RelativeLayout>

Change EditText to this and remove canvas.drawBitmap():

EditText editText = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);

but the app always force closed when I did this.

Main problem is how to make EditText clickable and show the soft keyboard like when you just put it from xml without drawing it on canvas at all

You can set property of Layout like android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" and android:focusableInTouchMode="enter code here"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

 android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"

android:layout_height="match_parent">



<EditText

    android:id="@+id/editText1"

    android:layout_width="wrap_content"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</RelativeLayout>

May this one helpful ;)

How to make EditText not focused when creating Activity

By default, if you click edittext, keyboard will be visible unless you did something to change the behaviour. No need to set clickable,focusable in xml layout. Just create a edittext & use it.

If you want to use edit text as to open something like date picker dialog you can use set focusable to flase. Hence clicking on edit text will open dialog etc.

Example : android:focusable="flase"